At Blizzcon 2008, attendees get a chance to win fabulous prizes (like a Frostmourne sword) by dressing up in costumes, thinking up witty one-liners, and of course busting a move in the dance contest. Check out this year's winners:Costume Contest Third Place: Alexander Gross, TyraelSecond Place:…

One of the first panels I attended was the Diablo III Class Design talk featuring Jay Wilson and other members of the D3 team. We had just witnessed the unveiling of the brand spankin' new Wizard class so this panel promised to give us a sneak peak behind the newest defender of Sanctuary as well as…

Hey all you PC gamers out there, didn't get tickets to BlizzCon? Don't have DirectTV Pay Per View? Don't worry! Dan and I are on the case!We're here right now in the BlizzCon convention hall recording and blogging the even just for you (well, and Channel 9 too). We just witnessed the opening…

Several weeks back James Vastbinder was able to coax Jack Gudenkauf into doing an interview on .NET 3.5 targeted at ISVs. Jack is an Architect on the Base Class Library team and tasked to work with Microsoft’s ISV Partners.
In this interview:
Jack talks about the BCL team and how they…

Awesome show last night from MC Chris.capitalSteps opened the show with some rocking techno played only on GameBoys. He had an SP, a Micro and a super old school original GameBoy complete with LightBoy. You gotta see to rock.Next up was Optimus Rhyme. These Seattle boys were the only act that night…

You can also find me at my personal site sampy.com. I have a blog there for more personal matters. I also have a Windows Live Space that should have all of these feeds in one spot for you to check out.

While PAX has great games on display, awesome panels, and great speakers it's first and foremost about the fans. I took a camera into the crowds, the gaming rooms and even all the way out to the tabletop gaming to show you what it's like to be a fan at PAX. Pop open a bottle of BAWLS and hone your…

Channel9 started as Community Server and
FlexWiki but has grown to a lot more. When we started working
on10, the goal was to create a new site as well as a stable, extendable code base that we could grow all our communities on. That project is called EvNet and this is the dev team behind it. We…

As a compact, stack-based programming language, Forth was popular in the 1980s as a lower-level alternative to BASIC for microcomputers and is still used in many commercial environments. When Valer Bocan discovered .NET in 2001, he decided to try writing
his first compiler, and Forth.NET was the…